Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Plan Creation
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning – Step 3
Business units shape your disaster recovery and business continuity procedures (see Disaster Recovery Planning Template Business Continuity). If the business operating units determine that the company must be up within 48 hours of an incident, then you can plan based on the amount of time it would take to implement the recovery continuity plan to have the business back operational.
The recovery procedure should be documented in a detailed plan. Establish a Recovery Team from among the IT and business unit staff and assign specific recovery duties to each member. The manner in which your team conducts its recovery probably will be no different than its regular production procedures: the chain of command likely will not change and neither will the aspects of the network for which each member is responsible. However the plan must take into consideration that the plan may be executed by others. For example on 9-11 the CIO and his management team were in London when the towers fell. The plan was activated and executed by a low level operations manager.
Define how to deal with the loss of various components of the network (databases, servers, bridges/routers, communications links, etc.) and specify who arranges for repairs or reconstruction and how the data recovery process occurs. The script will also outline priorities for the recovery: What needs to be recovered first? What is the communication procedure for the initial respondents? To complement the script, create a checklist or test procedure to verify that everything is back to normal once repairs and data recovery have taken place.
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